While Condemning Racism, Racist MSNBC Laments 'Latinos Who Are White'

MRC NewsBusters ^ | October 15th, 2022 12:53 PM | Alex Christy

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For the second time in a week, an MSNBC segment that was meant to condemn racism ended up with the segment’s participants spewing hateful and racist comments towards others. This time, the incident occurred on Saturday’s The Cross Connection as host Tiffany Cross and Prof. Tanya Hernandez reacted to the Los Angeles City Council racism scandal by lamenting that some Latinos try to be and are “white.”

Cross declared that, “I’ve grown up in communities where the Latino community was very adjacent, and, you know, a lot of shared experiences. And, it does tend to, the common ground here is white supremacy because it seems like some people in the Latino community feel like if we’re white-adjacent maybe they will not be subjected to the same racism and prejudice.”

Anybody wondering about definition of “white-adjacent” was left wanting as Cross continued, “I want to show a clip from a great writer in The Atlantic who says ‘your ‘whiteness’ will always be relative.’—She’s directing this towards the Latino community—'You can utter as much garbage as you want about black people, you can vote Republican and lead the Proud Boys but you will never achieve whiteness. The ‘gift’ bestowed upon Italians and the Irish isn't happening for us.’”

The councilmembers who were compelled to resign were Democrats! They took Cross’s obsession with race-based identity politics to its logical conclusion. …

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People who refer to Mexican Spanish as “low class” generally don’t know what they are saying. Educated Mexicans speak quite clearly and well, as for that matter do educated people across Latin America. What happens is that if you aren’t a native speaker small differences in regional speech and even more with uneducated speech are a problem, but a problem that passes with exposure.

The same problem happens in reverse with foreigners in the US when they are exposed to, say, “countrified” American English. Or regional British accents.

Exactly.

Rereading my previous post, I think I should clarify: educated Mexicans are easier for me to understand (more articulate and speak Spanish more grammatically and distinctly, as do most educated middle/upper class people who speak their native language).

Re: British accents. I remember meeting someone from Bristol and thinking how different that accent was from a London accent.